... There is a mainstream Blackness that pervades the inner linings of media and television, the likes that the BETs, Essences, Ebonys and New JETs of the world inhabit. Am I not speaking the language enough, I wonder? …

... To carry the history of a people in your marrow, while simultaneously bearing the brunt and weight of the brutality laid across your feet daily, that daily dalliance done with death, it dancing, diving onto grave and tombstone ...

... Brand of racism, tender hands, wonders who does your hair asks to borrow your acrylics praises your athleticism shuns Kapernick shuns Kapernick shuns Kapernick bans Vick praises always praising the lighter version opposite stand or kneel or bend over please please we need more whips we need more evidence reparations I do not want to pay for ghosts affirmative action why are they in our schools who endorsed busing this neighborhood is different where is his birth certificate they look like hoodlums I like the way you dance can you show me? ...

... Brand of racism, tender hands, wonders who does your hair asks to borrow your acrylics praises your athleticism shuns Kapernick shuns Kapernick shuns Kapernick bans Vick praises always praising the lighter version opposite stand or kneel or bend over please please we need more whips we need more evidence reparations I do not want to pay for ghosts affirmative action why are they in our schools who endorsed busing this neighborhood is different where is his birth certificate they look like hoodlums I like the way you dance can you show me? ...

... Brand of racism, tender hands, wonders who does your hair asks to borrow your acrylics praises your athleticism shuns Kapernick shuns Kapernick shuns Kapernick bans Vick praises always praising the lighter version opposite stand or kneel or bend over please please we need more whips we need more evidence reparations I do not want to pay for ghosts affirmative action why are they in our schools who endorsed busing this neighborhood is different where is his birth certificate they look like hoodlums I like the way you dance can you show me? ...